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    The Billionaire's Contract Bride
    The Billionaire's Contract Bride
    The Billionaire's Contract Bride
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    The Billionaire's Contract Bride

    By Kelly Dark

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    To fulfill a clause in her father's will, Pamela Covington has to get married and have a baby before she can inherit the family's chain of stores. But when her friend, Alex Malone, offers to be that man, she knows that she'd only be trading one problem for another. After years of trying everything to make him notice her as a woman, she knows that he'll only see her as the little sister he's never had.

    From penniless orphan to billionaire, Alex Malone has everything he's ever wanted except the family he's always craved. When he hears about her father's will, he knows that it's the perfect chance to start a family. He'd already tried marrying for love once before and had gotten burned. A marriage of convenience would suit him just fine. But things don't always go as planned and he soon finds himself wanting to make their marriage a real one!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKelly Dark
    Release dateOct 25, 2018
    ISBN9781386017660
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      The Billionaire's Contract Bride - Kelly Dark

      The Billionaire’s Contract Bride

      Kelly Dark

      The Billionaire’s Contract Bride

      by Kelly Dark

      This book is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales, organizations, is coincidental.

      Copyright © 2018 Kelly Dark

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced, scanned, or distributed, in any manner without written permission from the author.

      Chapter One

      Pamela Covington blinked at her lawyer. I have to what? Surely, she hadn’t heard right.

      Johnson cleared his throat and shifted in his seat. Ah well... Your father thought you were close to marriage at the time he did this. I believe he said that the young man you were seeing was a good prospect.

      A good prospect.

      Her mind scrambled to think of who her father had thought was such a good prospect that he’d done this, but she couldn’t think of anyone in particular.

      Unlike other fathers who were protective of their daughters, her father had wanted grandchildren so much that he’d welcomed all the boyfriends she’d ever brought home with open arms.

      Her fingers tightened around the chair’s armrest as the reality of her situation began to sink in.

      She couldn’t believe it. Even from the grave, her father was still trying to control her life!

      As if fixing her up on all those dates and deluging her with all those talks about babies and marriage hadn’t been enough, he’d decided to make it certain that she’d marry and have a child. By making them requirements if she wanted to inherit the family chain of hardware stores!

      Please tell me this is some kind of a joke.

      I’m afraid not, Johnson said as he took off his glasses. Your father made his wishes quite clear. But since you’re not married yet, you’ll be given a grace period of one year to marry and another to have the baby.

      Her lips curled. Her father had probably thought he was being generous, giving her two years to get her affairs settled to inherit the stores—the same stores she’d already been running for the past three years while he and Mom were off vacationing who knows where!

      She couldn’t believe that after all her hard work, this was how he was repaying her. She’d even stepped away from the coveted Tolles internship when it became clear that her brother wasn’t going to follow in their father’s footsteps all those years ago.

      She frowned when she remembered her brother. This doesn’t make any sense. How about Brian? Johnson had made it seem as if she would inherit everything if she followed her father’s wishes.

      Brian got the two houses, and any stocks, bonds and cash your father had.

      He’s not getting half of the company? she asked disbelievingly.

      The lawyer shook his head and she saw red.

      How could her father have done this to Brian?

      Just because Brian had more money than him didn’t mean that Brian should get less. He deserved every penny he made.

      And what does he have to do to inherit? she asked when she remembered that she would have to report to Brian later. Since he was busy, he’d told her to Just take care of all the legal stuff. But she had a feeling that he just hadn’t wanted to go to the lawyer with her. As if visiting the lawyer would’ve made their father’s death more final somehow. 

      She doubted Brian would play along with their father’s little game if he was given the same conditions she’d been given to inherit. Brian’s relationship with Dad had been strained since he’d decided not to take over the family chain of stores and this would just make things worse. 

      Nothing.

      She froze. He gets his inheritance with no strings attached?

      The lawyer nodded and she gritted her teeth. 

      That was just like her father. Only worrying about her not settling down even though Brian was older. She was only twenty-five, for goodness’ sakes! Just because her aunts hadn’t married didn’t mean that she wouldn’t as well!

      She’d just been waiting for the right guy to come along.

      She’d seen how in love her parents were and had always wanted to find that same kind of love herself.

      Did you try to talk him out of it? she couldn’t help but ask the lawyer. Not only did she feel betrayed by her father, she felt betrayed by Johnson. He’d always been like an uncle to her. How could he have let this happen?

      He looked away and she looked at all the pictures of his grandchildren on his desk and on the cabinet behind him. Her stomach dropped. She knew that he even had a few trophies that the kids had won behind her as well. His whole office was like a shrine to the kids. No. Of course you didn’t, she said, answering her own question. The man lived for his grandchildren.

      The stores would go to Brian if I choose not to do this, right? Her brother wouldn’t leave her hanging if he inherited the stores instead of her. Besides, he would need someone to run them.

      If you choose not to proceed, we will be forced to liquidate and the proceeds would be split between two charities.

      It was as if the wind had been knocked out of her.

      This could not be happening.

      Hoping that it was all just a nightmare, she dug her fingernail into her palm and winced when she felt the sharp pain. Nope. Definitely not a nightmare.

      She felt like cursing her father. How could he have done this to her?

      Except for settling down, she been the perfect child. She’d gotten good grades at school, had never dated any bad boys, and had even stepped up to join the company when it became apparent that her brother wouldn’t.

      He was worried about you spending too much time in the office, Johnson explained and her anger rose.

      That was because he and Mom kept going on vacations, leaving me with all their work! She winced at the sharp tone of her voice and shook her head.

      It was no use, staying here and arguing with Johnson. He’d obviously lost leave of his senses. She would just have to get a second opinion. Surely, this couldn’t be legal.

      As soon as she stepped out of the lawyer’s office twenty minutes later, she whipped out her cell phone and began dialing her brother’s number before she remembered that he was still in California.

      Grateful that Brian was on a business trip, she called his business partner instead. She didn’t feel like dealing with her brother when she had her own problems right now. He was usually an easy-going person, but their father had always had the power to push his buttons and this will would surely put him in one of those moods.

      Her chest eased when she heard Alex’s voice.

      Pam, what’s up?

      "Can I have Carl

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